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~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.

English Language Institute Director - Tuesday, September 18, 1962

That I haven't even begun a long French assignment is momentarily beside the point. At least I have an extra hour to work on it since she has changed our French class (for part of us) for the second time - from 9:00 TTHS to 1:00 MWF to 2:00 MWF. I also have a French test, sociology test, and psychology test this week and a religion "paper" due on Friday. This afternoon after phys ed I interviewed the director of the English Language Institute and tonight wrote hurriedly and took down to Carol at the print shop what proved to be a quite long article. Was she ever glad to see me. She assigned it to me at 2:30.

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